Orthopaedic trauma clinical research: Is 2-year follow-up necessary? Results from a longitudinal study of severe lower extremity trauma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1726-1731

  Castillo, Renan C ^a   MacKenzie, Ellen J ^a   Bosse, Michael J ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Follow up; Longitudinal; Methods; Research; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONVALESCENCE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE NONUNION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LEG FRACTURE; LEG INJURY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT BEARING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84255166690     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31822c1c33     Document Type: Article

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